Sculptor. Jean-Baptiste Paul Cabet was a French sculptor of the 19th century. Born the son of Antoine François Cabet, a cooper, he first studied at the Art School of Dijon. In 1832 he entered the studio of his stepfather, François Rude , working there for a decade. He joined the School of Fine Arts in Paris in 1833, studying under several well-known sculptors. He began competition at the Salon of 1835 with a bust of the poet Julien Paillet. With many French citizens rebelling the monarch, he was arrested on June 3, 1836 for a political offense of supporting the cause. For this reason, he escaped harm in 1846 with an exile to Russia. In Russia, he produced several works including bas-reliefs during the 40-year construction of the Saint Isaac's Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, but with the Soviet Union removing any religious art, it is not clear if his work survived. He created one of the many monumental fountains in Odessa in the Ukraine. In December of 1852, he returned to France. He was responsible for the studio when Rube traveled to Italy in 1843. On November 6, 1853, he married Rude's niece, Martine Henriette Victorine Vanderhaert, who dies at age 31 in 1865. The couple had a daughter and Rude was her godfather. He is the creator of the bronze bust, which adorns his wife's tomb at the Montparnasse Cemetery. After his stepfather's death in 1855, he completed Rude's unfinished works including the statue, "Christ, Domineering Love Hebe." At the Universal Exhibition of 1855, he obtained a second-class medal and a first-class medal at the Salon of 1861. He was awarded the Legion of Honor on August 12, 1868 Several of his pieces are exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris such as "Suzanne surprise au bain" in 1861, "Singing and Poetry" in 1866, and "Despair" in 1870. Following the destruction of the Battles of Dijon during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 through 1871, a statue was commissioned by him. A statue of a female allegory wearing a crown, "La Résistance du Monument to the Glory of the Defenders of the City of Dijon," was created and dedicated on October 30, 1875. His 1856 statue, "The Harvester," was on exhibit at the Louvre Museum. In his honor, a street in Dijon bears his name. In Nuits-Saint-Georges, a street bears his name as well as a monument by Paul Gasq, which was inaugurated on October 22, 1933, and adorns the facade of the belfry.